II.

From infants and from fucklings mouths
Thou didst a mighty ftrength ordain,
For thy foes fake, that fo thou might'ft
Th' avenging enemy reftrain:

When I look up unto the heav'ns
Which thine alinighty fingers fram'd,
Unto the moon and to the stars
Which were by thee wifely ordain'd.

IV.

Then say I, what is man, that we
Should be remember'd fo by thee!
Or what the Son of man, that thou
So merciful to us fhouldft be!

LORD, for a little while thou haft
Him lower than the angels made,

With glory and with dignity

Thou haft crowned his royal head.

II.

Ruler of all thy works he is,
Under his feet thou all didft lay,
All sheep and oxen, yea and beafts
Which in the open field do stray,

III. Fowls

III.

Fowls of the air, fish of the sea
Whatever paffes thro' the fame.
How excellent in all the earth
Jehovah our Lord is thy name!

AFTER N O O N.

PSALM IX.

This pfalm treats of the wonderful work of God in delivering Chrift from all his enemies, and from death especially. A right understanding of this deliverance, and faith in it, will lead us to praife God for it at all times: Becaufe he will give us reafon to fing of our own deliverance through him from all our fins and foes and miferies: And this will keep our hearts in tune to praise the Lord.

WIT

I.

ITH my whole heart to thee, O Lord, will I fing laud and praife,

And speak of all thy wondrous works and them record always.

II.

I will be glad and much rejoice

in thee, O God most high,

And make my fongs extoll thy name above the starry sky.

III.

Because my foes are driven back
And turned unto flight,

They fhall fall down and are destroy'd
by thy great pow'r and might.

GOD

Fifth Sunday after Epiphany.

PSALM IX.

I.

OD is protector of the poor,
what time they be diftreft,

He is in all adverfity

their refuge and their reft.

II.

And they that know thy name, in thee
their confidence will place,
For thou haft not forfaken them
who truly feek thy face.

III.

Sing pfalms therefore unto the Lord
who dwells on Sion hill,
Among the people make him known
his deeds record ye still.

PSALM XIV.

In this pfalm we have a humbling view of the finfulness of human nature, as guilty of practical atheism, totally corrupt and filthy, deftitute of all good, and fet upon all evil, yea even to perfecute the children of God. St. Paul quotes it Rom. iii. to prove that there are none righteous in themfelves, no not one, and therefore no flesh living can be juftified by any works of their own. Whoever is made fenfible of this corruption will find no relief, but in the glorious falvation mentioned in the laft part of the pfalm, for which the prophet prays, and in which he rejoices.

This pfalm fhould be fung with a heart felt conviction of our guilty ftate by nature, and with a humbling fenfe of our total helpleffnefs under it. May the Lord the Spirit thus convince us; and then he will fhew us our need of a Saviour, and having receivedhim by faith he will enable us to rejoice in the falvation of our God. The humbleft heart will enter deepest into the subject of the pfalm, and will therefore fing it to day with the best melody.

I.

THERE is no God, the foolish men do in their hearts conclude,

They are corrupt, their works are vile, not one of them doth good.

II.

The Lord beheld from heav'n moft high the whole race of mankind,

And faw not one who fought indeed the living God to find.

III.

They altogether filthy are,

they all afide are gone,

And there is none that doeth good, yea, fure there is not one.

IV.

These workers of iniquity

do they not know at all, That they my people eat as bread, and on God do not call.

AFTER

AFTERNOON.

PSALM XIV.

I.

WHEN thus they rage, then suddenly great fear fhall on them fall:

For God doth love the righteous men, and will preferve them all.

II.

Ye mock the counfel of the poor, and caft upon them shame: Because they put their trust in God, and call upon his name.

III.

But who shall save thy people, Lord,
or when wilt thou fulfill
Thy promife made to Ifrael

from out of Sion hill?

IV.

For when thou fhalt bring back again

fuch as were captive led,

Then Jacob fhall therein rejoice and Ifra'l fhall be glad.

Sixth